Elastic Security Detection Rules

Sublime Plugin or Application Script Modification

Last updated a year ago on 2025-03-18
Created 5 years ago on 2020-12-23

About

Adversaries may create or modify the Sublime application plugins or scripts to execute a malicious payload each time the Sublime application is started.
Tags
Domain: EndpointOS: macOSUse Case: Threat DetectionTactic: PersistenceData Source: Elastic DefendLanguage: eql
Severity
low
Risk Score
21
MITRE ATT&CK™

Persistence (TA0003)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Compromise Host Software Binary (T1554)(external, opens in a new tab or window)

License
Elastic License v2(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Event Correlation Rule
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
logs-endpoint.events.file*
Related Integrations

endpoint(external, opens in a new tab or window)

Query
text code block:
file where host.os.type == "macos" and event.action == "modification" and file.extension == "py" and
  file.path like
    (
      "/Users/*/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text*/Packages/*.py",
      "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/MacOS/sublime.py"
    ) and
  not process.executable like
    (
      "/Applications/Sublime Text*.app/Contents/*",
      "/usr/local/Cellar/git/*/bin/git",
      "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/git",
      "/usr/libexec/xpcproxy",
      "/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Resources/DesktopServicesHelper"
    )

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect Sublime Plugin or Application Script Modification in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(external, opens in a new tab or window).